Ovarian Cancer : In Depth - Deciding on T...
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This section focuses on treatment for epithelial ovarian cancer. Other types of ovarian cancer are rare. The type of treatment you have depends on how the cancer has spread. Cancer may be confined to the ovary or spread only to spots nearby. If so, it is called local or early-stage cancer. If the cancer has spread to other places in the body, it's called metastasis or advanced ovarian cancer.
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There are different types of surgery for ovarian cancer. The type of surgery you have depends mainly on these factors.
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About 1 to 4 weeks after your surgery to remove ovarian tumors, you will likely begin chemotherapy. You'll have it for about 6 months. How often you receive treatment will depend on the type of chemotherapy you receive. This depends on the size of the tumor and whether it is likely to spread quickly. You may have it every day, every week, every few weeks, or even once a month.
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Radiation treatment is also called radiotherapy. It is high-energy radiation that kills or shrinks cancer cells. In the past, doctors used radiation as a main treatment for ovarian cancer. Today doctors rarely use it. If they do, they combine it with other types of treatment. You may have it if you have already undergone treatment, but the cancer has come back. In most cases, its main goal is to control symptoms, not to treat the cancer.
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